Pandemic-hit IELTS English language test rolls out at-home exams Move offers alternative to testing centres used by thousands of international students to enter Western universities Pola Lem 10月 5日
Efforts to support female academics in China struggle to take off Just a handful of applicants for national project tackling issue Jing Liu 10月 5日
Is Western academia keeping up with Asia’s rise? In the third decade of the so-called Asian century, European and North American universities and governments continue to neglect the world’s most populous continent. As Asia grows ever more powerful, this must change, scholars tell Joyce Lau Joyce Lau 9月 30日
Nottingham rebuked for ‘misleading’ students over China campus Official censure comes amid claims that pioneering institution is only ‘a Chinese college that bears Nottingham’s name’ Jack Grove 9月 29日
Fake peer review retractions fuel concerns over Chinese practices Prestigious Sage robotics title pulls papers over concerns its peer review was ‘subverted’ by China-based academics Jack Grove 9月 28日
Yale-NUS guarantees impossible to fulfil, academics claim University ‘keen to engage’ staff and students on ‘merger’, while sidestepping inconsistencies in proposal John Ross 9月 27日
After Yale-NUS closure, liberal arts in Asia will benefit from peer support A new consortium will embody the spread of liberal arts beyond the West, say Bryan Penprase and Thomas Schneider Bryan Penprase 9月 23日
‘Kowtowing v-cs’ denounced by former Malaysian education minister University leaders would not exercise freedom even if the state did not have them under its thumb, says Maszlee Malik John Ross 9月 20日
Chinese province tries speed dating to retain graduates Anhui launches ‘marriage assistance project’ in response to concerns that too many graduates are going elsewhere Jing Liu 9月 19日
Yale-NUS closure ‘nothing to do with academic freedom’ College’s defenders say its demise will dilute free expression, but education minister says its original critics opposed it for the same reason John Ross 9月 17日